In today's video, we're going to take my van from Idaho down to Utah
to get a lift put on it. And yeah, if you stick around to the end of the video
i'll let you know how much this thing cost to get lifted.
what is going on youtube greetings from salt lake city actually a hotel in salt
lake city the reason i'm at a hotel is because i'm
dropping off my van this morning to get a three inch lift put on it if
you've been watching my channel you know i did some damage to the bottom
of my van specifically to the battery box well i got that fixed
but i knew i wanted to take this thing off-road to places that i probably
shouldn't take it so i thought a lift would be a good idea
i did a ton of research and i decided on a company called off
highway vans so that's where i'm headed i'm taking my
vehicle over there i'm gonna drop it off for two days
and they're gonna put a three inch lift on it so should be pretty cool so let's
go so i dropped my van off around 8 a.m on
monday morning and i was told to come pick it up the next day
tuesday late afternoon around 3 or 4 so it's a pretty quick turnaround to get
your van lifted here okay one last look at the van before i
go get it lifted notice how close my tire is to the top of the
wheel well and also notice how low my black tank
dump is and my running board is
wow oh that was so cool
my my battery box is so much farther off the ground
so cool yeah
yeah that's pretty awesome so really quick let's look at some
before and after pics this photo is from a campsite i was at in colorado and
notice my running board how close it is to the
ground here so here's a photo of my van with the lift and you'll notice i have a
lot more clearance under my running board
underneath the rear of the van and a lot more clearance underneath the front of
the van this picture is pretty awesome it shows
how much more distance i have between the wheel
well and my tire okay let me turn you over to
aaron one of the owners of ohv really quick and let him tell you what
they did to my van and then i'll go out and test my van and
see how it drives see how the stability is things like
that so kevin brought in his winnebago travato
it's the national parks edition which we've been seeing a lot of lately
because they're they're such a cool option on this
winnebago chassis and he wanted us to install our promaster
lift kit it gives you three and a half inches of extra clearance in the front
of the van and two and a half in the rear the rear
lift is really interesting because it's a lift plate
that raises that solid rear axle so it not only gives you extra ground
clearance for your generator and your water tanks
and things like that it actually also raises that low part of the van
that axle up by two and a half inches um with that lift kit it allows you to
stall install some extra large tires uh so you
can get a little more aggressive traction
and uh just handle getting off-road getting to the trailhead a little easier
so i left the dealership about three hours ago i wanted to really put the
lift to the test so i drove about an hour and a half out
of salt lake on the highway at 70 miles an hour
to see if there were any stability or handling issues at high speed
and then i turned around came back to salt lake and i've been driving around
trying to feel a difference because i've heard
that when you get a lift like this there can be stability issues
it drives different but i'll be honest with you
i can't tell any difference whatsoever in the way it drives the only real
difference i notice is when i go to get into the
van and i have to step up a little higher
but other than that i don't even feel like i'm any higher in the driver's seat
so there are definitely no driving issues that i've noticed
now i know it's early on it's only been three hours since i got it back
so i'm gonna check back in with you in about a week
um it'll be seamless to you it'll be right away but in about a week i'm gonna
check back in and tell you if there have been any
issues or if i still have the same impression that
it feels exactly the same the only difference is
it's a little bit higher when i try to get inside of it
so this is one of the things i really love about this lift
i can fit in most standard parking spots but at 21 feet sometimes
i stick out a little bit and it just doesn't work well now i can come right
up on the curve before i would have scratched the bottom
but now it's not an issue and i can pull right up to it and then when i pull up
to a curve
like that i don't have to worry about my running board scratching
on it anymore now that i have that lift so that's pretty cool
okay so i spent the last week or so in and around the salt lake city area
i wanted to be close to off highway vans just in case i had any issue with the
lift i could go in there and get it fixed
really easily i put about 150 miles on the van
exploring provo salt lake city and i've had no issue but
i'm ready to move on i'm ready to go exploring so i'm headed up to
west yellowstone to meet some escaper friends so i've got about
300 miles of highway driving to go and then about 10 or 15 miles
of forest service road to drive in the national forest up there
so it should be another good test of the three inch lift that i had put on here
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so i'm about 250 miles into this drive i just entered the national forest
went through a pass so had some pretty big hills
i didn't notice any performance issues anything different than any other time
i've went through steep hills so to me it drives exactly the same as
it did before the lift we'll see i'm getting
ready to head out onto the four service roads if anything that's going
to be better because it's going to be at slower speeds
and you know i have the lift i'm higher up so i don't have to worry
as much about bottoming out or hitting a rock that's sticking up or anything like
that so the main forest service roads were
actually pretty well maintained and didn't really put my lift to the
test there were a couple rocky areas but i could not find a campsite so i had
to go down roads that i would not have went
down before i got the left so this is a
pretty awesome campsite i explored the main roads of this
national forest the main service roads the gravel ones
and there weren't any campsites available so luckily i had this
lift and i was able to go down some of the side service roads
that were a little bit rougher and i was able to find this spot which is awesome
i'm at the edge of the national forest but this is exactly why i got the lift
was to get places like this without worrying about
damaging my trovato okay so let's answer that question
how much did this lift cost so it's pretty pricey
it's gonna be some sticker shock here i know i'm gonna get some haters
um it was 2 800 to get it lifted which is pricey i know some people are
gonna be like man you're nuts but for me it was worth it and if this video
does well enough maybe this video will pay for it so if
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investment see in the next video